The Project

This project will contribute a collection of 19th Century Lieder (by Schubert, Schumann and others) to the OpenScore collection, making the songs freely available to everyone, and accessible in all major digital formats.

Why?

19th Century Lieder are an important candidate for transcription for many reasons.

A key repertoire for the teaching of music theory.

Provides a valuable corpus for research and analysis.

Repertoire needs to exist in multiple keys to support different singers’ ranges.

The encoding of vocal lines and text is already partially complete, thanks to a previous para-academic project, which will serve as the starting point for the current project.

Relationship of this project to OpenScore

Benefits from tools & methods developed by OpenScore

Scores will eventually become part of the OpenScore collection

Funded from a research grant (separate to the Kickstarter).

Consider it a sub-project of OpenScore

Nature of the coordinator post

Self employed

Paid fee + free MuseScore Pro account for duration of the project

Flexible hours, but readily available to respond to transcriber queries promptly (assume spending 1-2 hours on weekdays on the project)

Check and approve score submissions, or request changes

MuseScore/OpenScore provides tools and rewards contributors

Work to begin ASAP, with June deadline for completion

Please note: this post does not equate to a main source of income. This is an opportunity for individuals who are already employed/retired to supplement their income/pension by working an extra hour or two each day. Please contact OpenScore for details.

Required skills:

Music: Good understanding of music notation for voice and piano in general

Software: Proficient in MuseScore, general computing, and running basic commands from the command line

Personality: Professional, punctual and patient with contributors.

Desirable skills:

Instrumental / vocal experience, and good understanding of 19th Century Lieder

Registering interest

Comments

Dear Peter Jonas:
I am a student from Taiwan who has been transcribing and arranging music as a strong interest, and I happen to see this post while searching for a transcribing project I once heard about a long time ago. I ,having read this post carefully, am fairly interested in this opportunity.
I have four years experience of using Musescore and using it to transcribe music. I transcribe music mostly from Deemo, a music game created by Rayark, into either piano solo or a full score.
Also, I have been performing in the percussion division in a high school wind band (NEHS wind band) for over four years. In the early period I had been studying full scores of some wind band music, gaining much knowledge of arranging music. Afterwards, I arranged two wind band pieces, "Selections from VK" and "Taiwanese Folk Song Suite". Both of them have been performed by NEHS wind band.
All of my works can be found by searching "Deemo Harlos" on the Musescore website. (I had to create four accounts to put all my works on it.)
I am currently studying computer science (CSIE) in National Taiwan University (NTU). If any further details on my experience and backgrounds can be provided, please let me know via e-mail. A duplicate of this message is sent via the contact link you provided.
I am really looking forward to your reply. Thank you for your consideration.